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Immeasurably

Immeasurably \Im*meas"ur*a*bly\, adv. In an immeasurable manner or degree. ``Immeasurably distant.''
--Wordsworth.

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immeasurably

adv. In a manner that is not measurable, in a way that can not be measured.

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immeasurably
  1. adv. to an immeasurable degree; beyond measurement; "the war left him immeasurably fearful of what man can do to man" [ant: measurably]

  2. without bounds; "he is infinitely wealthy" [syn: boundlessly, infinitely]

Usage examples of "immeasurably".

He had pretty much arranged all the hard bulkiness of memory and grief into a balanced load when Meryd came into his life and the load, for a time, became immeasurably lighter.

Father, mother, and all his brethren, except little Katty, were vanished out of it, and as it came looming back to him thus depeopled, its aspect was immeasurably desolate.

Some ten feet below the roof, the wall inclined slightly inward possibly a foot in the last ten feet, and here the climbing was indeed immeasurably easier, so that my fingers soon clutched the eaves.

Self-knowing, endless, and perfectly alone, Prakriti exists everywhere but is nowhere actually manifest, for although she herself, the material of the universe, is singular, that form takes immeasurably various individual forms.

Rockefeller opened his purse on the vivisection table, he added immeasurably to the strength of the forces that resist reform.

Thou art immeasurably exalted above the reach of the embodiments of the realm of being, and all solemnly affirm that Thou art immensely high above the description of such as are wrapt in the veils of fancy.

Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

Japan is immeasurably greater than that which, when applied to the resisting Nazis, necessarily laid waste the lands, the industry, and the method of life of the whole German people.

She let her mind drift a moment, still puzzled by the two shishi making for Yedo, thus surely risking capture or betrayal immeasurably.

Half blinded by the extreme effulgence, and confused by the jostling to and fro of a multitude immeasurably greater than any he had ever seen or imagined, Theos instinctively stretched out his hand in the helpless fashion of one not knowing whither next to turn, .

Bad and all as it was trapped here in the living room, traipsing round a bloody art gallery would be immeasurably worse.

And with my head upon His threshold, I have prayed and prayed again that we may all prove ourselves worthy disciples of so gracious a Master, that we may, when called unto Him, transmit, undiminished and unimpaired, our share of the immeasurably precious heritage bequeathed by Him to us all.

Duiker recalled him wella squat, hairless, immeasurably ugly sapper, his eye thin slashes, his nose a flattened spread of angles and crooks.

These poems are immeasurably superior to the two earlier Byronic tales.

There was no uncertainty in his voice, his eyes were now fathomless pools of sherry, meeting her gaze fully, dead-on, in the manner of a practiced cardplayer, and her will seemed to weaken immeasurably.